Updating Trust: How Children Combine Trait Information With Prior Accuracy as They Interact With an Informant.
When deciding whether to trust someone's claims, how do children combine—over multiple interactions—information about that person's general behavioral tendencies (traits) with that person's ongoing (and changing) rate of providing accurate claims? Children aged 4–8 played 11 rounds of a find-the-sti...
| Publicado en: | Developmental Psychology Vol. 60; no. 6; pp. 1145 - 1161 |
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American Psychological Association
Jun2024
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